Building Nigeria’s first workforce risk intelligence platform: Lessons from the ground
By OBI IGBOKWE When we set out to build WellNewMe, the temptation was to call it a “wellness platform” and leave it there. Wellness is an easy sell. Everyone nods along to the idea that healthier employees are more productive employees. But somewhere in the early build, we made a decision that has shaped everything since: […]
A critical exposition of the problems associated with Nigeria’s leadership succession
Tafawa Balewa, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Chief Anthony Enahoro, and many more worked hard to get Nigeria’s release from the colonial masters
Ogun West’s risky bargain for 2027
The message was notably vague, specifying neither the office she seeks nor the political party under which she would run
Emergency on security
By NICK DAZANG The bad omens were there. And it did not require the gift of prescience or foretelling the future to appreciate that our heightened insecurity would come to a head and that it would result in the declaration of an emergency. For the one and half decades that insurgency, banditry and terrorism have held […]
How Imo is engineering a $1 trillion economic transformation
After decades of reliance on human capital export and unharnessed natural wealth, the state known as the Eastern Heartland is staging its most consequential act of self-redefinition….
What Igbos should do
By SUNNY IKHIOYA The complexities of Nigeria as a nation are made more complicated by ethnic and religious mindsets. So, there is no way you rationalise a position on relevant national issues without receiving some flaks in return. The subject of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, is one of such. In […]
